When not working on my own art I spend a great deal of time out and about looking at other work.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

2012 - A Year of Mail

Back in November 2011 I put out a call for postcards.I wanted to use everything I received
to make the first piece for
2012.The only problem was
that some were too good to cut up.I used them by making color copies and cutting them up.But that was the not the end of
it.I continued to get more mail
art.I kept sending pieces out,
and more came back.Then I started
the Millennia Mail Art
Project.About 200 starter pieces were sent out with one completed
layer, each piece needed an additional 4-5 layers added.They are still in circulation and so
far 34 completed pieced have made it back.Another on going series is the Geo Graphic Mail Art Project – art postcards modified with maps, stamps and
more.There are more projects on
the horizon for 2013.The image
above just shows some of the amazing work I received in 2012.Unfortunately I have not
efficiently scanned and posted each individual piece, put some of the
contributing artists shown above include:

About Me

I am an artist living in San Francisco. I work primarily in mixed media, collage and landscape painting. My work has included maps, postcard-themed art and mail art projects. In 2013 I began a series called Collagescapes where I start painting paper with areas of color representing the palette of a specific place. Next I cut the paper into hundreds of small pieces, randomize the pieces and then reassemble them in various geometric patterns. Collagescapes are both landscape paintings and collages. They appear abstract but retain the color palette of the places they represent.
My new series is Time Travel Photos — handmade photo collages showing places in San Francisco where I have cut and sliced present-day photographs and interwoven photos of nature representing how the City looked before Europeans arrived. Each is an image of an urban space with the natural past emerging through. For example, creeks once again run through the Mission and dunes reappear in Golden Gate Park and tidal flats fill the Embarcadero.
My work has shown in over 40 venues, primarily in California but also in other locations in the United States and abroad. My artwork can be viewed at tofuart.com